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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

GÓRNISIEWICZ

surname
versions/aliases

GURNISIEWICZ

forename(s)

Stanislav (pl. Stanisław)

religious forename(s)

Antoninus (pl. Antonin)

function

religious cleric

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

congregation

Order of Preachers OPmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.07.06]

(i.e. Dominican Order, Dominicans)

diocese / province

St Hyacinth Polish Province
St Hyacinth Galicia Province OP
Lviv archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

academic distinctions

Sacred Theology MA

date and place
of death

22.07.1948

Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]

details of death

During World War I — after so‐called oath crisis when on 09‐11.07.1917 part of Polish soldiers of Polish Legions refused to take an oath of allegiance to the so‐called Kingdom of Poland and to fight alongside the troops of Germany and Austria–Hungary, and the remainder was incorporated into the so‐called Polish Auxiliary Corps under the command of Col. Haller; after the so‐called Peace of Brest on 09.02.1918, when some soldiers of the Polish Auxiliary Corps rebelled on 15‐18.02.1918 in protest against and were interned — run retreats in the internment camp in Dulfalva (and also in 6 others) in Hungary.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of Russian occupation, arrested by the Russians in the autumn of 1939 in Ternopil.

Held in prison („enduring not only harassment in prison, but also other pains”) and then either released, or — according to some sources — sent deep into Russia, to one of the forced labor camps — the Gulag — from where finally returned.

Died after the end of hostilities, in Russian–occupied Poland, known as prl (People's Republic of Poland).

alt. details of death

It is also possible — the available sources are not precise — that was arrested by the Russians after the German defeat and the takeover of power by the Russian occupier in 1944.

sites and events

GulagClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

05.05.1871

Mogilanytoday: Mogilany gm., Kraków pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]

religious vows

01.01.1891 (temporary)
1895 (last)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

25.06.1895

positions held

till 1948

friar — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Holy Trinity monastery, Dominicans OP

friar — Zhovkvatoday: Zhovkva urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.22]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery, Dominicans OP

c. 1935 – 1939

friar — Ternopiltoday: Ternopil urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.20]
⋄ St Vincent Ferrer monastery, Dominicans OP — preacher

c. 1909 – 1939

membership — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
Lat. „Consilium a Vigilantiae” (Eng. „Committee on Morals”), Metropolitan Curia ⋄ Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
RC deanery

1922 – c. 1933

friar — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Corpus Christi monastery, Dominicans OP — i.a. regens studiorum, i.e. main lecturer, including an introduction to the Holy Bible, and director of the Philosophical and Theological College (1925)

1925 – c. 1933

administrator — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Corpus Christi RC parish ⋄ Lviv intra Urbemdeanery name
today: Lviv, Ukraine
RC deanery

c. 1918

prior — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Corpus Christi monastery, Dominicans OP

from 1898

first editor of the magazine „Spiritual Rose”, publicist, author of many works on the rosary, published also in the magazine „School of Christ

c. 1895 – c. 1916

friar — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Corpus Christi monastery, Dominicans OP — i.a. lecturer at the Philosophical and Theological College (from c. 1898), including an introduction to the Holy Bible, rhetoric, Church history, patrology, philosophy, sociology, exegesis and humanistic knowledge; regens studiorum, i.e. main lecturer and director of the College (c. 1911‐1914); also: trustee, i.e. administrator of provincial estate (c. 1904‐1914)

till 1895

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Philosophical and Theological Studies, Corpus Christi monastery, Dominicans OP — prob.

student — Graztoday: Tyrol state, Austria
more on
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[access: 2022.11.20]
⋄ Studium Generale (philosophical–theological college), Dominicans OP — prob.

1890

accession — Dominicans OP

comments

Since the details of the priest's prison experiences are not known — in particular, the length and timing of his stay in Russian captivity — his biography remains in the „White Book”, although it does not fully meet the requirements of the lexicon.

sites and events
descriptions

Gulag: The acronym Gulag comes from the Rus. Главное управление исправительно‐трудовых лагерей и колоний (Eng. Main Board of Correctional Labor Camps). The network of Russian concentration camps for slave labor was formally established by the decision of the highest Russian authorities on 27.06.1929. Control was taken over by the OGPU, the predecessor of the genocidal NKVD (from 1934) and the MGB (from 1946). Individual gulags (camps) were often established in remote, sparsely populated areas, where industrial or transport facilities important for the Russian state were built. They were modeled on the first „great construction of communism”, the White Sea‐Baltic Canal (1931‐1932), and Naftali Frenkel, of Jewish origin, is considered the creator of the system of using forced slave labor within the Gulag. He went down in history as the author of the principle „We have to squeeze everything out of the prisoner in the first three months — then nothing is there for us”. He was to be the creator, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, of the so‐called „Boiler system”, i.e. the dependence of food rations on working out a certain percentage of the norm. The term ZEK — prisoner — i.e. Rus. заключенный‐каналоармец (Eng. canal soldier) — was coined in the ITL BelBaltLag managed by him, and was adopted to mean a prisoner in Russian slave labor camps. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held in Gulag camps at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.04.08]
)

Ribbentrop‐Molotov: Genocidal Russian‐German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so‐called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro‐Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti‐Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislav Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German‐Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called «Intelligenzaktion», in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian‐German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic‐pre‐Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
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, www.bc.dominikanie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.11.20]

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